David L. Ferguson, Veteran Fighter Test Pilot

David L. Ferguson, the former chief test pilot for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Tactical Fighter Program, an Air Force test pilot and Vietnam War combat veteran, died of cancer Aug. 10 in Quartz City, Calif. He was 72. Ferguson piloted the first flight of the YF-22A and conducted its initial...

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